N.B. Call 087-6528643 soon for tickets which are selling out quickly for ‘Four Men and a Dog’

Schools Outreach

On Friday morning, some of our local musicians will visit 2 of the local schools as part of our Schools Outreach program and hold an interactive recital, demo and discussion with the primary school students. We visit 1 or 2 schools each year as part of a rota ; this year it is the turn of The Skerries Educate Together School (our first visit) and Holmpatrick National School.

The musicians are led this year by James O’Mahony and include:

James O’Mahony (banjo & mandolin)

Bill Haneman (uilleann piper and pipemaker)

Andrea Gallagher (whistle, fiddle & bodhran)

Frank Slocket (flute)

Mary O’Donoghue (button accordion)

Ray Warwick (guitar)

Saturday Events – May 17th 2014

Workshops from 10am

Early Tunes at 3pm & 5pm

Music on the Street from 1pm

… at Seasons, at Skerries Mills

… & at the Sweet Emporium

Recital/Discussion at 7pm

… “Come East along the Coast” with

… Nicholas Carolan and guests

Céilí Mór at 9pm

… The TULLA Céilí Band

Evening Sessions 9:30pm

… see detailed sessions page in brochure

N.B. Call 087-6528643 soon for tickets which are selling out quickly for ‘Come East along the Coast’ and the Céilí Mór.

One of Ireland ‘s leading traditional fiddle players Paddy Glackin is a Dublin man proud of his strong links to County Donegal. His father, Tom Glackin, was a fiddle player and instilled in Paddy a deep interest and love of the music of his native county – Donegal. It was on a trip to Donegal as a boy alongside his father, the noted music collector Breandan Breathnach and Clare fiddle player John Kelly, that Paddy first encountered the music and sparkling personalities of two of the legendary figures of Irish fiddle music- the travelling tinsmiths, John and Mickey Doherty. Their music was to have a lasting impact on the young musician.

Paddy attended classical music lessons in Chatham Row in Dublin and developed a formidable technique still evident in his bowing. Music was played in the family home and Frank O’Higgins and Tommy Potts were not infrequent visitors. Paddy’s younger brothers Seamus and Kevin are highly regarded fiddle players in their own right.

In the mid 1970’s Paddy recorded and played with Ceoltoiri Laighean and shortly after was to record the first of his solo albums for the Gael Linn label. His eponymous debut album is still regarded as a classic. Paddy was to record duet albums with the uilleann piper Paddy Keenan and Dublin keyboard experimentalist Jolyon Jackson-both on the Tara label. He was invited to be the first fiddle player in seminal traditional music group The Bothy Band and spent 18 months with what was to be one of the most influential and popular of the great Irish bands of the 1970’s. Their legacy is still to be felt today. While with the Bothy Band Paddy cemented his close relationship with guitarist and singer Mícheál Ó Domhnaill and in more recent times Paddy and Mícheál were to tour extensively together. Before his untimely death in July 2006, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill recorded the Athchuairt album with Paddy and it was released on the Gael Linn label. Another relationship from Bothy Band days was his friendship with bouzouki maestro Donal Lunny and this found musical expression with the release of their album together In Full Spate.

A noted commentator and lecturer on Irish music Paddy is also in demand as a session player. He is as comfortable playing the music of John Cage as he is sitting down to play tunes with piper Liam O’Flynn.